He should have gone to the oil spill BEFORE he went partying.
Didn’t he deliver the commencement address at UMich earlier in the day? Maybe he wanted to be sure to devote sufficient time to the briefing, rather than just doing a fly-over. (His handlers would surely have told him THAT wouldn’t convey an attentive attitude,) Hope the administration actually can DO something about this situation.
Hard to believe that BP, this gigantic specialist organi8zation in deep-sea drilling, doesn’t have a back-up plan for dealing with emergencies like this instead of just calling in a government. How many other deep-sea drilling rigs like this do they have going on the coast of the US? Around the world?